The Buffaloes will be demotingMakoto Moriyama and Shogo Akada before the start of the third block (the team doesn't want to rush the two players) and will be calling up two other players -- Tomochika Tsuboi appears to be one of them.

Said Okada, "Instead of going down in the middle of the season, he went down now. He didn't do very well during the early part of the season last year and went 4-7. If that's the case, then we can't do any worse with other pitchers. We have a lot of pitchers this year, so we can give everyone a chance."

Okada continued, "Like I said from the beginning, it wouldn't be possible to go the entire season with the same 6 pitchers."

Okada apparently told the Korean press yesterday that Park may have a shot at the opening day start and that Park was also scheduled to pitch in an intra-squad game on the 25th and in an exhibition game on either 3/5 or 3/6.

Park spent some time teaching Hiroshi Kisanuki the two-seamer from yesterday (this on the heals of learning the fork from Kisanuki on Sunday).